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Title: Feds Will Give Amtrak's Acela A $4.5 Million PER-SECOND Upgrade
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URL Source: http://www.businessinsider.com/feds ... lion-per-second-upgrade-2011-8
Published: Aug 23, 2011
Author: Zeke Miller
Post Date: 2011-08-23 03:12:11 by socalv8
Keywords: amtrak, obama, money pit
Views: 903
Comments: 9
The Department of Transportation announced Monday that the government will spend $450 million upgrading a 24-mile stretch of rail between Trenton and Brunswick, New Jersey, on the busy Northeast Corridor to allow Amtrak's signature Acela trains to reach 160 miles-per-hour. The speed-limit increase would save about one minute and forty seconds, Bloomberg reports — meaning the upgrade will cost about $4.5 million per-second. An additional $295 million will be spent to separate Amtrak trains from Long Island Rail Road trains in Queens — to speed travel times north from Manhattan. The money for high speed rail improvements comes from funds originally granted to Florida in the 2009 stimulus bill that the state sent back earlier this year. House Republicans had sought to divert some of the funding to flood relief in the Midwest. “These grants are a win for our economy and a win for commuters all along the Northeast Corridor,” Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood said. “We are creating new construction jobs, ordering American-made supplies and improving transportation opportunities across a region where 50 million Americans live and work.” The Department of Transportation estimated that the grants would create 12,000 jobs. Amtrak said the improvements are the first steps toward 220 mile-per-hour service on the line which links Washington, D.C., New York, and Boston.
Poster Comment: Outrageous.
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#1. To: socalv8 (#0)
75 mph is all we need. Keep watching your local rail...;}
I agree - they should be increasing the funding for this.
With the economy still in the dumper -- maybe permanently? -- and full-time jobs becoming as scarce as rain during a drought, huge percentages of Americans have had their (misplaced) faith in the American dream shaken, the upper-middle-class consumerist lifestyle is exposed as a mirage for anybody who plays by the rules. Capitalism and the America that embraced it as a way of life is now and forever more a failure. It does me good to know that the generation that voted in Reagan and his ideology will see their America die from that ideology before their very own eyes and knowing they had a hand in its destruction.
Huh? Times how many trains times how many days a year? For want of a nail...
America...My Kind Of Place... "I truly am not that concerned about [bin Laden]..." "THE MILITIA IS COMING!!! THE MILITIA IS COMING!!!" I lurk to see if someone other than Myst or Pookie posts anything...
Was that your first earthquake? Nothing feels quite like a good earth- shaking.
I was actually in LA a week or so after the Northridge quake in 1994 and went through several aftershocks. I was also in one in, of all places, Lancaster, PA in 1984. And thanks...
America...My Kind Of Place... "I truly am not that concerned about [bin Laden]..." "THE MILITIA IS COMING!!! THE MILITIA IS COMING!!!" I lurk to see if someone other than Myst or Pookie posts anything...
Same sentiments and condolences with regards to your Mom. Believe it or not I had my dog exactly twice as long as I had my Mom.
Thanks and bummer x2...
America...My Kind Of Place... "I truly am not that concerned about [bin Laden]..." "THE MILITIA IS COMING!!! THE MILITIA IS COMING!!!" I lurk to see if someone other than Myst or Pookie posts anything...
Just wait until some idiot unionized and federalized railroad employee wrecks that baby.
It will NEVER travel that fast. Yet, trial lawyers are drooling over any speed increase. Check amtrak news on google ANY day for a list of amtrak crashes. Who's gonna pay those settlements? You and me.
#2. To: socalv8 (#0)
Outrageous.
#3. To: socalv8 (#0)
The speed-limit increase would save about one minute and forty seconds, Bloomberg reports — meaning the upgrade will cost about $4.5 million per-second.
--GW Bush
--Sarah Palin's version of "The Midnight Ride of Paul revere"
#4. To: war (#3)
Glad you're ok and Condolences regarding your Mom.
#5. To: socalv8 (#4)
--GW Bush
--Sarah Palin's version of "The Midnight Ride of Paul revere"
#6. To: war (#5)
#7. To: Fred Mertz (#6)
--GW Bush
--Sarah Palin's version of "The Midnight Ride of Paul revere"
#8. To: socalv8 (#0)
160 miles-per-hour
#9. To: Happy Quanzaa (#8)
Just wait until some idiot unionized and federalized railroad employee wrecks that baby.
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